Austin
April 25-29, 2016

Event Details

Please note: All times listed below are in Central Time Zone


To Persist, or not to Persist (Container Data), that is the Question

Containers are fast becoming the standard unit of deployment for cloud-native applications that follow the design patterns of a "Twelve-Factor App". Two of those patterns talks about stateless application processes and about backing services.  Application data that needs to persist is typically written to a backing service such as a database and these types of use-cases is where the topics of data persistence and containers meld.

In this session, we will start from the beginning by reviewing why/when containers might be a good fit with your OpenStack cloud strategy followed by how OpenStack Cinder can be used with containers (along with examples when it shouldn't be) and, finally, a review of the orchestration tools available for leveraging persistent storage provided by OpenStack Cinder with containers along with a demonstration.


What can I expect to learn?

Attendees of this session will: Understand what are containers being used for and how to leverage them with OpenStack clouds, identify use-cases where persisting data with containers is necessary, and learn/see options that are available to orchestrate Cinder volumes for containers.

Wednesday, April 27, 2:40pm-3:20pm (7:40pm - 8:20pm UTC)
Difficulty Level: Intermediate
Technical Marketing Engineer
Ken is a Technology Marketing Engineer and Cloud Solutions Architect who is passionate about helping customers with building great solutions leveraging technologies such as VMware, OpenStack, AWS, Azure and containers. He lives in New York City where he can indulge in his love of great food from all around the world. You can follow Ken on Twitter @kenhuiny. FULL PROFILE
Offering Manager, IBM Cloud
    I have been in the OpenStack community since 2013 and I am currently participating in the Product WG, Enterprise WG and I also helped to define the newly created Active User Contributor (AUC) designation in the OpenStack community. At Athenahealth, I am focused on our infrastructure/cloud services strategy, operations, and participate extensively in OpenStack user... FULL PROFILE
Principal Engineer at NetApp
John Griffith, Principal Software Engineer at SolidFire now a part of NetApp, helped to create the Cinder project in OpenStack.  His primary responsibilities over the last several years have been as a technical contributor to OpenStack.  He served as Technical Lead for the Block Storage Project since it's beginning through the Juno release, and has also held elected seats on the... FULL PROFILE